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Author: John C. Hull

Hull's Solution Manual is an excellent addition to the text. It allows an individual to do problems following each chapter with in depth answers that may not be provided by professors. The questions and answers allow for understanding the material.

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Author: John C. Hull

This book is appropriate for graduate and advanced undergraduate elective courses in business, economics, and financial engineering. It is also suitable for practitioners who want to acquire a working knowledge of how derivatives can be analyzed.

One of the key decisions that must be made by an author who is writing in the area of derivatives concerns the use of mathematics. If the level of mathematical sophistication is too high, the material is likely to be inaccessible to many students and practitioners. If it is too low, some important issues will inevitably be treated in a rather superficial way. In this book, great care has been taken in the use of mathematics. Nonessential mathematical material has been either eliminated or included in end-of-chapter appendices. Concepts that are likely to be new to many readers have been explained carefully, and many numerical examples have been included.

This book provides a unifying approach to the valuation of all derivatives - not just futures and options. The book assumes that the reader has taken an introductory course in finance and an introductory course in probability and statistics. No prior knowledge of options, futures contracts, swaps, and so on is assumed. It is not therefore necessary for students to take an elective course in investments prior to taking a course based on this book.

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Author: Don M. Chance

A market leader, this book is ideally designed for either a one- or two-semester course in options and/or futures, derivatives, and/or risk management at the advanced undergraduate or MBA level. Detailed but flexible coverage of options, futures, forwards, swaps, and risk management - as well as a solid introduction to pricing, trading, and strategy - allows instructors to selectively tailor inclusion of topics/chapters to fit the length of the course.

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